Kind of drifted away from the game in recent years, baseball's changed alot since I was a kid. You got the wild card now, another division in each league, interleague play, you don't know who's juiced up and who ain't, it's a little more complicated now and some days I don't want to think too much. Games are longer too. Used to be on average about 2 1/2 hours, now they're regularly over three. After each pitch the batter has to step out of the box, adjust his batting gloves, scratch his nuts and then the pitcher's not ready. Can you not be a fan of your hometeam or even root against them? I'm not saying I'm one of them but I know some New Yorkers who feel the Yankees are arrogant, a few are even diehard lifelong Red Sox fans.
Good game last night, give credit where credit is due. The Phil's Cliff Lee had his spiked curveball down pat and economized his pitches well, pitched a complete game, almost a shutout save for one unearned run and had a blase kind of 'tude going which I liked. The way he caught that popup to the mound and then a grounder behind his back, 'twasn't nothing, I'm bored. There was a mist falling since the start of the game but the tv made it seem worse. Now Tim McCarver's kind of a polarizing figure, men either seem to like him or hate him but I like him. I like the way he dissects the game and he's not afraid to say someone made a bad call or a bad play, he'd rather speak his mind than be popular among the players. Joe Buck? good I guess.
George Will likes baseball, shows he's hip and not all nerd and that's cool. Greatest baseball player of all time? that's easy, Willie Mayes. Derek Jeter, went out with all the well-known babes at one time or another, Mariah Carey, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johansson. Does anything happen or is he just a good guy that you can talk to and he's willing to listen? The Game's on the evil FOX network which works for me, wonder if Obama's watching. Oh and one more thing, Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Can we do that for the guy before he passes?
Good game last night, give credit where credit is due. The Phil's Cliff Lee had his spiked curveball down pat and economized his pitches well, pitched a complete game, almost a shutout save for one unearned run and had a blase kind of 'tude going which I liked. The way he caught that popup to the mound and then a grounder behind his back, 'twasn't nothing, I'm bored. There was a mist falling since the start of the game but the tv made it seem worse. Now Tim McCarver's kind of a polarizing figure, men either seem to like him or hate him but I like him. I like the way he dissects the game and he's not afraid to say someone made a bad call or a bad play, he'd rather speak his mind than be popular among the players. Joe Buck? good I guess.
George Will likes baseball, shows he's hip and not all nerd and that's cool. Greatest baseball player of all time? that's easy, Willie Mayes. Derek Jeter, went out with all the well-known babes at one time or another, Mariah Carey, Jessica Biel, Scarlett Johansson. Does anything happen or is he just a good guy that you can talk to and he's willing to listen? The Game's on the evil FOX network which works for me, wonder if Obama's watching. Oh and one more thing, Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Can we do that for the guy before he passes?